Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Barren County.

R. PRICE MORAN is a native Kentuckian.  His father, Price P. Moran, was 
born March 16, 1818, in Barren County, Ky., where he has ever since 
resided. His life has been spent in the healthful pursuits of the farm, 
and now, at the age of sixty-nine, he is hale and stout, and retains all 
of faculties of earlier years.  He has been successful in his business 
operations, and acquired a fine property, including a well kept and well 
improved farm of 200 acres lying on Skegg's Creek, which in 1875 he 
turned over to his son, Robert, and retired from active life.  Three of 
his seven children are living, including the subject of this sketch; 
Thomas W., the eldest, and Thaddeus O., the yougest, are residents of 
Louisville, Ky., and connected commercially with the Chess Corley Oil 
Company, that city. Mrs. Elizabeth (Mansfield) Moran, the mother of R. 
P. Moran, died in 1866; she and her husband were for many years members 
of the Missionary Baptist Church. She was a daughter of Thomas and 
Matilda Mansfield, who were Virginians by birth, and residents of Barren 
County, Ky., to which he came about 1800. Price P. Moran is of Irish 
lineage and a son of William Moran, of Albemarle County, Va., who came 
to Kentucky in 1806, and located in Barren County, where he died in 
1839.  R. Price Moran was born in Barren County, May 11, 1854.  He 
received a good common school education, and became proficient in 
mathematics and the collateral sciences.  He was married, December 23, 
1879, to Miss Julia E., daughter of Jesse M. and Harriet Clarkson, of 
Jefferson County, Ky.; to this union have been born two sons:  Walter C. 
and Colin B., and one daughter, Roberta.  For eleven years, from 1874, 
Mr. Moran was in the employ of the Chess Corley Company, oil producers, 
manufacturers and refiners of Louisville, Ky., In January, 1885, he 
abandoned the trade, returned home and took charge of the farm, which he 
manages with success, giving most of his attention to stock raising; he 
is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, in which he is an active 
worker; politically he is a Democrat, and takes a lively interest in the 
political issues of the day. 

Clarkson Corley Mansfield Moran
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Albemarle-VA Jefferson-KY VA

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